What happened on July 14, 2002

NEWS

BOOKS

'The Dark Hibernal Shore' By Adam Kirsch, Adam Kirsch is the author of the forthcoming book of poems "The Thousand Wells."
Los Angeles Times Bestsellers
Nowhere to Hide By Greg Goldin, Greg Goldin is a writer who contributes to numerous publications, including LA Weekly and Los Angeles magazine.
Los Angeles Times Children's Bestsellers
Reveries of a Solitary Walker By Pico Iyer, Pico Iyer is the author of numerous books, including "The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto" and the forthcoming novel "Abandon." His essay is adapted from the foreword to a new edition of "The Inland Sea," to be published by Stone Bridge Press in September.
Books For Kids Reviews are provided to Book Review by Publishers Weekly, where they first appeared. Copyright 2002, Publishers Weekly.
Stepping into California's Range of Light By Jonathan Kirsch, Jonathan Kirsch is a contributing writer to the Book Review and the author of, most recently, "The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People."
Survival of the Prettiest By Francie Lin, Francie Lin is the associate editor of the Threepenny Review.
Unsentimental Journey By Thomas Mcgonigle, Thomas McGonigle is the author of "The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov" and "Going to Patchogue."
Racism Unleashed By Linda Melvern, Linda Melvern is the author of "A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide."
Too Good to be True By Bruce Pandolfini, Bruce Pandolfini is the author of the forthcoming "The Diagonal Mind" and other books on chess, including "Kasparov and Deep Blue." He was the real-life inspiration for the chess instructor in "Searching for Bobby Fischer."
Los Angeles Times Bestsellers / Paperbacks
Evening By Raymond Carver, From "All of Us: The Collected Poems" by Raymond Carver (Vintage: 386 pp., $14 paper)
Sisterhood Is Powerful By Tony Platt, Tony Platt is the coauthor of "The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U.S. Police," published in 1975, and, more recently, "E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered." He is a professor of social work at Cal State Sacramento.
Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds
The Magnificent Ronin By Richard Schickel, Richard Schickel is a contributing writer to Book Review and a film critic for Time magazine. His television series, "The Men Who Made the Movies," is running every Tuesday this month on Turner Classic Movies.
Better Fewer, but Better By John Simon, John Simon is the theater critic for New York magazine and music critic for The New Leader. His most recent book is "Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry."
The Beanstalk Country By Tennessee Williams, From "The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams," edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis

ENTERTAINMENT

OPINION

An Old, Valuable Map
The Joys of Finding
Hong Kong's Eroding Rights
Breakdown on the Tollways
Read My Lips: No More Corporate Crime
How to Safely Maintain L.A.'s Historic Buildings
Nevada Waste Site Approved by Congress
Wolfram's Cosmos Theory May, or May Not, Compute
The Role of Hatred in the Killings at LAX
It's Quite Simple, Mr. Bush By John Balzar
Drop Bid to Revive the Dying Salton Sea By Brent M. Haddad and Christopher J. Brown, Brent M. Haddad is an associate professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz. Christopher J. Brown is a recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz.
Bad Cops: Feds Have to Act, Not Talk By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press, 1998).
The Best Defense By William M. Arkin, William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc.org
The Greed Patrol Is Back By Charlotte Allen, Charlotte Allen is the author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus."
U.S. Muslims, Unify and Stand Up By Khaled Abou El Fadl, Khaled Abou El Fadl teaches law and Islamic law at UCLA School of Law.
Killer Bees Move North By Deborah Blum, Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and author of "Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women."
Whither the Poorest in a New Valley City? By Bill Boyarsky, Bill Boyarsky, former city editor and columnist for The Times, is senior consultant for the Center for Governmental Studies and teaches journalism at USC's Annenberg School for Communication. He is writing a biography of the late California political leader Jesse Unruh.
The Patients' Side of the Story By Scott Gottlieb, Scott Gottlieb, a practicing physician, is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a staff writer for the British Medical Journal.
Democracy Sprouts From Autocracy By Paula R. Newberg, Paula R. Newberg recently visited Uzbekistan on behalf of the National Democratic Institute.
Time for a Three-Faith Effort By Robert Mclaren, Muzammil Siddiqi and Benjamin Hubbard, Robert McLaren is professor emeritus of child and adolescent studies at Cal State Fullerton and a Presbyterian clergyman. Muzammil Siddiqi is religious director of the Islamic Society of Orange County and a part-time lecturer at Cal State Fullerton. Benjamin Hubbard is a professor of Jewish studies and chair of the Department of Comparative Religion at Cal State Fullerton.
Old Age: The New World Threat By John J. Hamre and Thomas W. Jones, John J. Hamre is president and chief executive of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Thomas W. Jones is chairman and chief executive of Global Investment Management and Private Banking Group, Citigroup.
How to Succeed in Business? Try Ethics By Rushworth M. Kidder, Rushworth M. Kidder is founder and president of the Institute for Global Ethics in Camden, Maine (www.globalethics.org ), and author of "How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living." He can be contacted at rkidder@globalethics.org.

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What happened on July 14, 2002

NEWS

Vampires Are No Myth in Mexico By Mark Stevenson, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

A Different Breed of Backpacker Treks to Thailand By Denis D. Gray, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Ex-Child Warriors Easing Into Mainstream By Alexandra Zavis, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Till (His) Death Do They Part in Iran By Ali Akbar Dareini, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Portugal Pits Yield Exquisite Marble By Nick Wilson, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Parties, Piety Merge in Peace Pursuit By Alexandra Olson, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Stolen Fertilizer Used to Make Drugs By Becky Bohrer, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Searching Tribal Folklore for a Mythical Quake By Elizabeth Murtaugh, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Conservation at Odds With Greenery Rules By Tim Korte, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Holding Their Ground (Water) Against a Development Boom By Bill Bergstrom, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

Determined D.A. Harbors No Doubt About Murder By Michael Luo, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

An Experiment Nets a Lifetime of Health Care By Sharon Cohen, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

America's Hideaways Fall Prey to Popularity By Luis Cabrera, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

A Serious Case of Summer Blues By Reed Johnson, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Social Circuits By Ann Conway

No Way to Treat a Loyal Pet Owner By Sandy Banks

Grandpa's Surprise By Elizabeth Van Steenwyk

The Screen-Eyed Monster By Leslie Gornstein, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Streisand Slept Here By Mary Mcnamara, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Giving the Enemy Its Opening By Frida Ghitis, Frida Ghitis' latest book is "The End of Revolution: A Changing World in the Age of Live Television."

A Smile at the Door By Susan King, TIMES STAFF WRITER

BOOKS

'The Dark Hibernal Shore' By Adam Kirsch, Adam Kirsch is the author of the forthcoming book of poems "The Thousand Wells."

Nowhere to Hide By Greg Goldin, Greg Goldin is a writer who contributes to numerous publications, including LA Weekly and Los Angeles magazine.

Books For Kids Reviews are provided to Book Review by Publishers Weekly, where they first appeared. Copyright 2002, Publishers Weekly.

Stepping into California's Range of Light By Jonathan Kirsch, Jonathan Kirsch is a contributing writer to the Book Review and the author of, most recently, "The Woman Who Laughed at God: The Untold History of the Jewish People."

Survival of the Prettiest By Francie Lin, Francie Lin is the associate editor of the Threepenny Review.

Unsentimental Journey By Thomas Mcgonigle, Thomas McGonigle is the author of "The Corpse Dream of N. Petkov" and "Going to Patchogue."

Racism Unleashed By Linda Melvern, Linda Melvern is the author of "A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide."

Too Good to be True By Bruce Pandolfini, Bruce Pandolfini is the author of the forthcoming "The Diagonal Mind" and other books on chess, including "Kasparov and Deep Blue." He was the real-life inspiration for the chess instructor in "Searching for Bobby Fischer."

Evening By Raymond Carver, From "All of Us: The Collected Poems" by Raymond Carver (Vintage: 386 pp., $14 paper)

Sisterhood Is Powerful By Tony Platt, Tony Platt is the coauthor of "The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: An Analysis of the U.S. Police," published in 1975, and, more recently, "E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered." He is a professor of social work at Cal State Sacramento.

Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds

The Magnificent Ronin By Richard Schickel, Richard Schickel is a contributing writer to Book Review and a film critic for Time magazine. His television series, "The Men Who Made the Movies," is running every Tuesday this month on Turner Classic Movies.

Better Fewer, but Better By John Simon, John Simon is the theater critic for New York magazine and music critic for The New Leader. His most recent book is "Dreamers of Dreams: Essays on Poets and Poetry."

The Beanstalk Country By Tennessee Williams, From "The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams," edited by David Roessel and Nicholas Moschovakis

ENTERTAINMENT

To Be Young, Urban and Neurotic By Mike Boehm

An Actor's Dream and Dread By Josh Getlin

There's 'Life' After 'The Producers' By Josh Getlin

Hope Won Out By Robert Hilburn

The Tracks of the Past Are Music to His Ears By Jessica Hundley

Ambivalent African By Hunter Drohojowska-philp

No More Waiting in the Wings By Josh Getlin

And Stardom Makes Three By Susan King

Her Underwater Canvas By Richard Natale

Money Can't Buy Love, but It'll Get You a Beatles DVD By Steve Hochman

Always With an Ear for Order By Chris Pasles

The American Dream, to an Outsider By David Pagel

A Little Too Comfortable By Dean Kuipers; Natalie Nichols; Steve Hochman; Steve Baltin; Soren Baker

The Local Angle By Don Shirley

When the Power Fails By Lewis Segal

French Revolutionaries and a Timeless Trio By Don Heckman

OPINION

It's Quite Simple, Mr. Bush By John Balzar

Drop Bid to Revive the Dying Salton Sea By Brent M. Haddad and Christopher J. Brown, Brent M. Haddad is an associate professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz. Christopher J. Brown is a recent graduate of UC Santa Cruz.

Bad Cops: Feds Have to Act, Not Talk By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Earl Ofari Hutchinson is the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black" (Middle Passage Press, 1998).

The Best Defense By William M. Arkin, William M. Arkin is a military affairs analyst who writes regularly for Opinion. E-mail: warkin@igc.org

The Greed Patrol Is Back By Charlotte Allen, Charlotte Allen is the author of "The Human Christ: The Search for the Historical Jesus."

U.S. Muslims, Unify and Stand Up By Khaled Abou El Fadl, Khaled Abou El Fadl teaches law and Islamic law at UCLA School of Law.

Killer Bees Move North By Deborah Blum, Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer and author of "Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women."

The Patients' Side of the Story By Scott Gottlieb, Scott Gottlieb, a practicing physician, is resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a staff writer for the British Medical Journal.

Democracy Sprouts From Autocracy By Paula R. Newberg, Paula R. Newberg recently visited Uzbekistan on behalf of the National Democratic Institute.

Old Age: The New World Threat By John J. Hamre and Thomas W. Jones, John J. Hamre is president and chief executive of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Thomas W. Jones is chairman and chief executive of Global Investment Management and Private Banking Group, Citigroup.

WORLD

Mixed Reaction to U.N. Compromise on Court From Times Wire Reports

Bin Laden in Asian Region, Spy Chief Says From Times Wire Reports

U.S. Gives Cash to North to Help in MIA Searches From Times Wire Reports

Relatives Mourn Victims of Crash in Germany From Times Wire Reports

Palestinian Public Has a New Foe By Mary Curtius, TIMES STAFF WRITER

25 Hindu Civilians Killed in Kashmir From Associated Press

China-Taiwan Overtures Hint at New Talks By Tyler Marshall, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Ravers Throng Berlin's Annual Love Parade From Associated Press

Mexican Farmers Take 3 More Hostages By Richard Boudreaux, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Israel Captures Would-Be Bomber From Reuters

Will Israel Stay or Will It Go, 2 Sides Wonder By Barbara Demick, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Pakistan Blast Injures at Least 12 During Tour From Associated Press

Tibetan Teacher Freed by China Lands in U.S. By Anthony Kuhn, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES